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Notes:

R. rubiginosa Linnaeus (1771) Foliage smells like apples.From Roses of America, p. 41: One of the most famous references to it is in Shakespeare's A Midsummer-Night's Dream, where Oberon describes Titania's bower: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

The Eglantine has naturalized in North America, where it is found far and wide. Britton and Brown documented it in Virginia and Tennessee as Rosa rubiginosa (Britton & Brown, not Linnaeus). It is also found along the coast of California, where it is a favorite food of the native deer and a sad windblown sight, and in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.